Lucy's Birthday!! 6 Years!!

I love Lucy. She is one of the coolest people ever. Seriously. She has so many sides to her, it's just fun to get to know her. This year she has grown in a lot of ways. For one, she is much taller. For another, she's experienced so many different situations (school, church, and our home to mention a few) here that I think it has broadened her perspective. Finally, seeing her learn and develop as both a younger sister and an older sister has been neat. She is really quite the little Mommy to Samantha, and a good friend for Grace. She always asks such relevant questions when we discuss things like religion. It always impresses me. She is also so silly and fun! She LOVES to kick back and relax. Yes, I love Lucy.


Okay, Lucy's birthday is on Oct. 27th, but her school started semester break after the 22nd. So, Lucy had a school party on Friday the 22nd and then had a family/neighborhood party on her actual birthday.





This is Lucy's class. When it's your birthday, you walk around the room in a circle holding a globe. THere's a candle in the middle of the globe representing the sun, and you circle one time for each year you've been on the earth. While Lucy was circling the room, I told about what Lucy liked and did each year of her life, and Gracie held up pictures of Lucy. Then, even though Lucy's class only goes half day, on birthdays the birthday child brings lunch for everyone plus cupcakes and gift bags. So we did. It went great and Lucy was happy.



The cupcakes. So yummy!



On Lucy's birthday, Gracie made sure Lucy stayed in bed until she was served breakfast. Yes, those are brownies you see. The nice lady, Haydee, that works for us made them special for Lucy.




The morning of Lucy's real birthday, we headed to SM (the big mall here) to paint ceramics. It was so fun! Even Sami liked it, although hers accidentally broke at the end...The girls did a lovely job painting. We made it home just in time for the party!


The rest of the pictures are from Lucy's party. We had it in our neighborhood by the pool. Lots of kids went swimming until it rained too hard and they had to stop. Then we had donuts, played games, and ate a giant pizza. It was a great time!